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Handsome bachelor farmer in his mid forties with tousled light brown hair, a short beard and blue eyes holding a big orange pumpkin in a pumpkin field in Illinois at golden hour, flannel shirt with sleeves rolled up

A TV Station Interviewed Me About My Pumpkin Farm for 40 Seconds. By Morning, 9 Million People Had Watched It, and 600 Women Were Lined Up at My Gate

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Every October, a local news crew comes out to my family’s pumpkin farm in central Illinois to film the harvest. Forty seconds of B-roll, a quick question, done. This year, the reporter asked me what makes a perfect pumpkin, I said one sentence, and by breakfast the next morning, the internet had decided I was “the hottest farmer in America.”

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Handsome rancher in his late forties with dark blond hair, light stubble and blue eyes standing in tallgrass prairie hills of the Kansas Flint Hills at golden hour, leaning on a fence post

I Hired a Quiet Syrian Man to Fix Fences on My Kansas Ranch. When a Bull Crushed Me Against a Gate, I Found Out He’d Been the Best Surgeon in Aleppo

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He showed up at my ranch in the Flint Hills in a borrowed truck, asking for any kind of work. He barely spoke. He fixed fences better than anyone I’d ever hired. I never asked about his past, and he never offered it. Then, on the worst day of my life, lying in the dirt with a broken chest, I heard him say three words that changed everything: “I am a surgeon.”

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